When she had finished Snowdon spoke with her for awhile on the subject of the story.

In all he said there was the earnestness of deep personal feeling.

His theme was the virtue of Compassion; he appeared to rate it above all other forms of moral goodness, to regard it as the saving principle of human life.
'If only we had pity on one another, all the worst things we suffer from in this world would be at an end.

It's because men's hearts are hard that life is so full of misery.

If we could only learn to be kind and gentle and forgiving--never mind anything else.